MAY 2017 issue

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FEATURES

• Quentin’s Smart Buys 2017. Our resident expert tips the Jensen Interceptor, Lotus Elan S4, Saab 900 Turbo, Mercedes 220 SEb coupé and Lancia Fulvia Coupé• Top Ghia. Ordered new by a Hollywood star who died before he got to drive it, this Ghia L6.4 is one of 17 examples of a car that the Rat Pack turned into a jet-age status symbol. Now it’s Quentin Willson’s turn to take the controls• DB4-play. Road-test pilot Ben Barry gets intimate with an Aston Martin DB4 Vantage Series 5 as he takes it on a whistlestop tour through Aston country• The List. A vivid memory of a Rolls-Royce in the Sixties left our reader yearning to experience lambswool luxury for himself – but sampling modern Bentleys left him with the blues. Will a drive in a Bentley S2 Continental Flying Spur ward them off for good?• Epic Restoration. The ingenuity required to rebuild the Jabbeke speed-record Triumph TR2 discovered in a stack of boxes stored in an eccentric collector’s garage• The Collector. An American whose fleet includes a fire engine and an ice-cream truck recounts a night spent hairdrying damp $100 bills to buy back his Cobra 289• Why I Love... the Monza GP by former McLaren team manager Alastair Caldwell

Columnists

• Quentin Willson reflects on conversations held with Classic Cars readers• Tom Tjaarda looks back at Lancia’s brighter days with rose-tinted enthusiasm• Gordon Murray finds a Bristol literally back from the grave at an Indian concours• Simon Kidston wonders whether any of the Geneva debutants warrant classic status